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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Thomas Sowell

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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Believe Claim Liberty People Politics Solution
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Entrepreneur Experience Learning Pain People Work
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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Bail Economy Life Lost Mortage People
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Hand People Time Waste Wasted Time Work
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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Earn Greedy Human Nature Money
Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Evade Failure Ignorance Record Social

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